16 skills

The skills

A skill is a written procedure for one situation. The list below is grouped by when you need one, not by what it is made of.

First contact

First contact with an existing codebase: read it before you touch it.

batch-triageRead an inherited backlog against the code in one pass, then create tickets with labels and blocking edges.First contact
bootstrap-glossarySeed CONTEXT.md from the terms the code already uses, marked unreviewed until confirmed.First contact

Running the work

The everyday path of a ticket, from dispatch to receipt.

dispatch-ticketHand one ready ticket to one Builder in its own worktree.Running

At the gate

Where someone else re-reads before anything moves on.

When the code is old

Code that has lived a while: no tests, no module boundaries.

Keeping it honest

The recurring work that keeps the board and git telling one story.

reconcile-trackerMeasure the tracker against git and report the four drift classes between them.Upkeep

Same flow, other tooling

The same procedure against a different runtime or a different tracker.